Wittgenstein, Frazer, and Religion
St. Martin's Press (1999)
| Abstract | In the first full-length analysis of Wittgenstein's Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough, Brian R. Clack presents a fresh and innovative interpretation of Wittgenstein's conception of religion. While previous commentators have tended to sideline the Remarks on Frazer, Clack shows how the key to Wittgenstein's thought on religion lies in these remarks on primitive magico-religious observances. This book shows that Wittgenstein neither embraces expressivism, as it is generally assumed, nor straightforwardly denies instrumentalism. Focusing instead on Wittgenstein's suggestion that magic is somehow akin to metaphysics, a view of ritual as the spontaneous expression of human beings (conceived as "ceremonial animals") is presented. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Religion History | |||||||||
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| Call number | B3376.W564.C57 1999 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 0312216424 9780312216429 | |||||||||
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